Emir Nemanja Kusturica is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films. He is a two-time winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes (for When Father Was Away on Business and Underground), as well as being a Commander of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Since the mid-2000s, Kusturica's primary residence is Drvengrad, a village in the Mokra Gora region of Serbia. He had portions of the historic village reconstructed for his film Life Is a Miracle. 

Filmography

• 2019Balkan Line — Taxi driver
• 2019El Pepe: A Supreme Life — Self, Director
• Untold Stories of Eastern Europe
• 2016On the Milky Road — Kosta, Director, Writer
• 2014The Ice Forest — Secondo
• 2014Words with Gods — Monk (ep. "Our Life"), Writer, Director
• 2013The Scapegoat — Stojil
• 20127 Days in Havana — Actor (segment "Jam Session")
• 2012The Whirl — Bogdanov otac
• 2011Mozzarella Stories — Executive Producer
• 2011Nicostratos the Pelican — Démosthène
• 2009Farewell — Sergei Grigoriev
• 2008Maradona by Kusturica — Self, Director, Writer
• 2007Le Temps des Gitans Punk Opera — Director
• 2007Promise Me This — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2006All the Invisible Children — Director, Executive Producer
• 2006Gucha! — Producer
• 2006Secret Journey — Harold
• 2005Le court des grands — Director
• 2005TropiAbbas — Music
• 2004Life Is a Miracle — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2003Strawberries in the Supermarket — General, Producer, Executive Producer
• 2003The Good Thief — Vladimir
• 2001Super 8 Stories — Self, Director
• 2000The Widow of Saint-Pierre — Joseph Auguste Néel
• 1998Black Cat, White Cat — Director, Writer
• Once Upon a Time There Was a Country — Švercer oružja, Director, Writer, Creator
• 1995Underground — Dealer, Director, Screenplay
• 1993Arizona Dream — Director, Story
• 1991Bolo — Thanks
• Time of the Gypsies — Director, Creator
• 1988Byzantine Empire '88 — Mangup u tramvaju
• 1988Time of the Gypsies — Director, Writer
• 1987The Magpie Strategy — Writer
• 1987The Worker's Life — Writer
• 1985When Father Was Away on Business — Director
• 1981Do You Remember Dolly Bell? — Director, Writer
• 1979Buffet Titanic — Director, Writer
• 1978Guernica — Director, Writer
• 1978The Brides Are Coming — Director
• The South Bank Show
• 1972Walter Defends Sarajevo — Omladinac
• Crime No Punishment — Director
• Magic Bus — Director
• The Woman from Čurug — Director, Writer

Appearances as themselves (21)

• 2025Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp — Self
• 2025How I Waited for the Sun — Himself
• 2024"I Will Revenge This World With Love" - S. Paradjanov — Himself
• 2023Dule Savić and the Silence in London — Himself
• 2022Scenes from the Life of BH Film — Himself
• 2022Srpska: The Struggle for Freedom — Self
• 2020Good Morning, the Wind Blows — Self
• 2018CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel — Self
• 2018Local Heroes - World Talents — Himself
• 2016To Make a Comedy Is No Fun — Self
• 2015The Legend of the Palme d'Or — Self
• 2013Balkan Spirit — Self - Director
• 2013Who Is This Kusturica? — Himself
• 2012Kusturica - Balkan's Bad Boy — Himself
• 2012Walter — Himself
• 2005Emir Kusturica and the No Smoking Orchestra - Live is a Miracle in Buenos Aires — Himself
• 2003Chaplin Today: The Circus — Self
• 2000Emir Kusturica — Himself
• Vivement dimanche — Self
• 1996Shooting Days: Emir Kusturica Directs Underground — Himself
• The Guldbagge Awards — Self - Best Foreign Language Film winner